I think you should be happy about the fact that the iBook
finally has a halfway decent resolution LCD even if it did
lose the annoying color scheme. As a Thinkpad toter, I'm
rather happy bith my black slab, since it's bigger and
faster than an iBook, which means I can have more fun with
it. (Of course, it also cost more....) If you're more
concerned with appearance than what's
inside, get a can of spraypaint....

Me:

Time for me and my black slab to do a crosscountry trip,
unfortunately the only hacking I'll likely do will be
work-related. But it did give me an excuse to pick up a
power inverter so I can charge in the car.

Have the new replacement for Springies set up, which
is good. Still need to set up the CD-RW, which will involve
tithing for a new SCSI cable.

Note to self: It's nice that your laptop can go till lunch
on battery, but it would be even nicer if you remembered to
bring the power cord so it didn't have to!

This just hasn't been my morning. I'm out of Dr Pepper at
work and I forget my power supply. Duh....

Not much hacking done lately. I'm putting a replacement
together for my home
server, to replace the 6.5 year old Pentium 60. It
still works, but it's gotten to the point where I'm afraid
to open it up for fear it won't start up again. The
new machine is a PowerEdge 1400SC from Dell. It's not running the
factory RHL install since I'm switching machines over to
Debian. The only unhappiness about that is the server
agent won't work... but Dell doesn't supply kernel modules
for any recent kernel anyway. They really should wake up
and see that not even RH thinks 2.2.16 is a good
idea anymore.

Picked up a USB joystick to play old Wing Commander IV. So
I have my first USB toy and it already works under Linux.
Very good, anyone who had anything to do with it!

One fewer sourceless project on sourceforge. Scrapbook has
been released. Don't let the high version number induce
thoughts of stability or features! But since the app has
worked for me for a couple years, I felt it deserved the
version number of 0.02.

Got my domain name working, so everyone can visit my
incipient website. I
haven't maintained a website in at least 3-4 years, so this
is from scratch. Learning CSS and catching up on HTML4 so
that it hopefully sucks not as much as other sites.

While I'm doing this, I've started a sourceforge project for
Album (now Scrapbook). I intend to do a quick replace of
the names and upload CVS onto there, then do a quick release
of things as they are now. It isn't a perfect app, but it
works for me and hopefully more users will induce me to
spend more time improving it. I'll post a link to the
project as soon as it actually has something up... at least
a minimal webpage or something.

Gack. A general malaise has set in. I don't know what... I
think I go need to fly a kit, but I haven't had the right
wind for it.

Lots of things I want to play with at the moment, just not
sure what to do next. Write house LaTeX styles? Learn more
about databases? Fix mmm-mode so it does heirarchical
regions for cweb? Who knows. I should just keep watching
for some wind.

Specifically, free software does not require that the
software be copylefted. Even RMS acknowledges that
X-licensed software is free software.

In general, free software is the same software as open
source software. But the emphasis is different. The free
software movement emphasized the freedom to do whatever you
want with software. This scares companies, so the open
source movement deemphasizes this (though it's still in the
OSD) and emphasizes the improvement in code that you get
from having many people work on your code.

History: "Open source" as a term came about because of
ambiguities in the term "free software". Unfortunately,
it's just as ambiguous, as shown by people thinking SCSL
software is open source.

other news:

Well, my delightful wife got me springies.com for my
birthday. It's the domain name that came to me in a dream.
I don't have any real hosting for it right now... just the
domain name and some free services from the registrar
pointing http://www.springies.com
somewhere else. I want to switch to DSL and run the domain
from home, but haven't gotten fully into DSL Roulette yet.

Debian experiments put off for some time when the junk I
need is in stable. Knowing little about debian, it's too
much of a pain to fix things which break in unstable, when I
can just reboot into RH. I'll try again later. For now, I
have work to do.

Speaking thereof, I installed Fisher. What was I just
saying about unstable software? 8^) Well, at least fisher
is not a moving target, and I've been using RH since 3.0.3
and I can fix most RH problems without noticing them.
Besides, it mostly works.

Other than that, not much up. Haven't done much recently
beside have a nice v-day with my wife.

Ok, loved by idiots, but it's nice. I've finally been hit
by one of those email viruses! It's about time. After all
the fuss that goes up on each one, you feel really depressed
that you're in nobody's address books.

Not that it could do anything to me... Gnus is nice. But
it's the thought that counts.

Not much else up around here. mmm-mode hacking dissuaded by
Sourceforge's switchover and my inability to access writable
CVS. So I installed RHL Fisher and have been busy playing
with things that broke. Unfortunately, not much did (as
usual... I never seem to run into the problems everyone else
does).

Learning Metafont and CWeb lately. Along with that, I've
been beating more on mmm-mode to support CWeb. There are a
number of areas where mmm-mode doesn't do things the best
way for cweb, so I'm doing a bit of hacking on its
internals. CWeb looks like a good choice, because it's
different enough from what mmm-mode handles already that by
the time I get a submode class for it, mmm-mode should be
able to handle almost anything easily.